5 Good reasons to get an Xbox One

Want to know why xbox one is the console for you? Well here are all the reasons you should get an xbox one over a PS4 this November.

1.) The Games

Xbox one will have a much wider variety of games than the xbox 360, with 15 exclusives in its first year on the market.

THE SHOOTERS.

Xbox one will be the best place for people who like to play first-person shooters.

Fans of Cod and Battlefield will be glad to know that DLC packs will come to Xbox one, one whole month before the PS4. This may not be a big deal to everyone, but most of your favorite Cod and Battlefield youtube commentators will most certainly be getting Xbox One so they can review and give their subscribers a first look at the new content.

Xbox one will have Titanfall as a console exclusive killer app. Because the xbox 360 version will not be capable of more than 16 person multiplayer, and getting a good PC to play it can cost 1000$+, Xbox One will be the best way to play it. Yes, it is possible that Respawn may port it to playstation 4 eventually, but not until they can get dedicated, and cloud servers from sony at a reasonable price, which face it, may take several years! Even if it did only take a year before it was ported though, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU WANT TO WAIT A WHOLE YEAR TO PLAY THIS AMAZING GAME??

Halo, Halo is an amazing shooters that completely makes up for the Ps4's one exclusive shooter Killzone. Most people would agree in fact that Halo surpasses Killzone in almost every way. The next halo (probably Halo 5) will be out by the end of next year, and you won't want to miss it.

Xbox One will have exclusive content for The Division. (3rd person shooter)

Destiny

Wolfenstein: The new order

Sniper Elite 3

Sunset Overdrive (exclusive)

So clearly, Xbox one will be the best place for people who enjoy the widely popular FPS genre of games

CASUAL & FAMILY GAMES

Worried that you will be the only one with something to play on the Xbox One? Well don't worry, Xbox one will have many games targeted towards the casual gamer that just wants to play something fun with the rest of the family.

Kinect Sports Rivals

The fighter Within

Zumba Fitness: World Party

Just Dance 2014

Fantasia: Music Evolved

GAMES FOR THE KIDS

If you have younger siblings, or kids to take into account then Xbox one will have plenty to keep them busy with so don't worry.

Xbox one will have enormous support for action/adventure games, here are some of the bigger titles.

Crimson Dragon

Mad Max

Ryse son of Rome

Watchdogs

Assassin's Creed 4

Metal Gear Solid 5

The Witch 3 Wildhunt

Fable Legends

Star Wars Battlefront

Dead Rising 3

Cyberpunk 2077

New Mirrors Edge

Dying Light

(new mirror's edge)

SPORTS

Since Microsoft has recently made a partnership with EA, you can be sure that there will be plenty of juicy sports games to sink you teeth into.

Madden NFL 25

FIFA (with exclusive content)

NBA live 14

NBA 2k14

Forza Motorsport 5

Need for Speed rivals

The Crew

Powerstar Golf

AND MANY MORE......

FF XV

Dragon Age Inquizition

The Elder scrolls Online

Below

Cobalt

Thief

Lococycle

(Final Fantasy XV)

*This is not a complete list of Xbox one's games, Just the more exciting ones put into categories.

2.) The Online Experience

Xbox one will be "powered by the cloud" says Microsoft, but what does this mean for us gamers?

DEDICATED SERVERS

It has been confirmed by Microsoft that most Xbox one games that have some sort of multiplayer included will run on dedicated servers. This means that when playing with others from around the world you will experience significantly less lagg, does away with closed NAT problems, and fixes the migrating host & host advantage problems associated with many online shooters today. If you have no idea what any of that means, basically, it means that Xbox live's multiplayer will be much faster and more reliable!

XBOX LIVE REPUTATION SYSTEM

This is a feature that not many people are talking about. Basically, it is a system that keeps track of your online gaming behaviour. It rewards you for being good by granting you a "green status". If you are one of those people who like to be annoying and mess people up by doing thing like driving backwards on forza to mess people up, or cussing out other people's mothers, then you may end up getting a "yellow status", and will find that you will start becoming paired with other like minded people such as yourself. If bad behaviour continues than you will eventually be awarded the red or "avoid me" status, and end up getting placed in matches with the worst of the worst. The point of this whole system is to help separate the good and considerate gamers from the rude trolls who like tho trash talk about your mothers anus.

Cloud Computing

While this feature is heavily speculated against, it stands to provide enormous potential. So the Xbox one will use cloud computing, but what does that mean? It means that calculations can be done via microsoft's global databases, and then download the results strait to your system to boost its potential processing power. Here is one example that microsoft gave on how it can be used.

"One example of that might be lighting," he continued. "Let’s say you’re looking at a forest scene and you need to calculate

the light coming through the trees, or you’re going through a battlefield and have very dense volumetric fog that’s hugging

the terrain. Those things often involve some complicated up-front calculations when you enter that world, but they don’t necessarily

have to be updated every frame. Those are perfect candidates for the console to offload that to the cloud—the cloud can do the

heavy lifting, because you've got the ability to throw multiple devices at the problem in the cloud."

While it is still up in the air on how much this feature will affect games in the future, developers from Respawn (Titanfall), and Turn 10 (Forza 5) have already come out and talked about how their games use the cloud to improve the experience. Respawn claims that some of the AI and physics used in their game are offloaded from the cloud, and Turn 10 talked about how they use the cloud to create "driveatars" which is a special kind of AI that studies and mimics the driving habits of your friends so that whenever you are playing offline, or not with your friends, the AI that you race against will mimic your friend's driving habits, making your experience more realistic.

SMARTMATCH

Ever get tired of waiting 5 minutes in a multiplayer lobby with nothing to do while waiting for a match to get set up and start? Well thats all about to change. With smart match, you can begin setting up a match, and then do other things while the xbox one sets up your match for you. Say your playing Forza 5 and your friend has just logged on to XBL. You and him both like to play Titanfall so you join his party, and he sets up the match. While you are waiting for the match to set up and find all the other players necessary, you can go back to playing forza 5 (or do whatever else you want to do), and it will notify you when the match is all set up so you can switch back to play the match with just the click of a button, its that easy!

3.) MORE THAN A GAMING MACHINE

While some people worry about all the entertainment features built into the Xbox One, it clearly is nothing more than icing on top of the cake.

HDMI-IN PORT

The xbox one comes with a HDMI in port on it that can allow you to watch cable on your Xbox One. This means that you do not have to switch input channels on your TV anymore to switch between TV and your games. Furthermore, Xbox One will have its own Xbox TV guide that will come with it to make finding the right shows and channels easier. Of course TV is not the only thing that can be used with the HDMI in port, you can also use it to channel you xbox 360 through to the TV. IT may even be possible to play the ps3 or ps4 with the HDMI passing through the Xbox One which would spare you the need to switch input channels when playing on different consoles.

MULTITASKING

In truth, the Xbox one is a supercharged gaming PC in disguise. With its new Snap feature, you can do two completely different things at the same time! Say your playing Dead Rising 3, and feel like talking to your girlfriend at the same time, you can use the Snap feature to skype call her on her phone or PC while continuing to play your game. And because Kinect has a 1080p camera on it, your calls will always be in HD! Of course this is only one example of how you can use this feature, the more creative you are with it, the better!

(using skype while watching cowboys vs. seahawks game on Xbox one)

APPS.

Xbox currently has more apps available to use than any other platform. With options ranging from HBO all the way to TWITCH tv and ESPN, Xbox One will have no shortage of nifty little applications to discover.

4.) Kinect 2.0

Every Xbox one comes with a Kinect which will allow every Xbox one user to access all of is's cool features.

DEVELOPERS WILL SUPPORT IT

Unlike it's competitors counterpart the ps eye, Kinect will come with every Xbox one purchased. Because of this, developers are going to have a reason to support it, and will not only make games for it, but incorporate it into their games that normally wouldn't have support for it, in "ways that make sense". One example that battlefield 4 developer DICE gave was the ability to turn on night vision in a game by touching the side of you head with you hand, similar to the way that you turn it on in real life!

PRECISION

The new Kinect is so much more precise than the original. It is said to be 10x as powerful as the original. It has 70% larger field of view, and while the original could track 20 joints on 2 people, Kinect 2.0 will be capable of tracking 25 joints on 6 people! It can even see your fingers from 3 meters away! What all this means is that developers will be able to add much more precise content to games. For example, Kinect can sense your wrist turning, so now on the new Kinect Sports game, they will be able to accurately calculate spin on a that bowling ball when you play! This also allows it to be incorporated into games that traditionally would have no use for it as mentioned above previously. It is in fact capable of processing up to 2GB of data PER SECOND! Thats insane processing speed for a peripheral to have!

VOICE COMMANDS

The new Kinect will also be able to listen to your voice commands. These commands can be used to do a number of things like turning on the console, and navigating through the dashboard FASTER than what would be possible using a controller. Imagine coming home from school. Your tired, and ready to relax and play a bit of watchdogs. You throw your backpack on the living room floor, say xbox one, it turns on. You sit down, and pick up the controller. Your mom is still signed into her account from earlier that day when she was watching netflix, but the Kinect quickly realizes its YOU, and not you mom, and automatically signs her out, and you in, all within seconds. Rather than scavenging through your library of games with you controller to find the right one, all you have to do then is say "xbox, play watchdogs" and it will automatically go to the game.

Its not as much about convenience as it is about speed, you can get to what you want to do quicker, and you can use voice commands to get to anything, ANYTHING. Say I'm watching a football game, its half time, and I don't have anything to do for the next 30 minutes. So I decide to go to YouTube to watch the latest videos that have been uploaded by the people i'm subscribed to. All I have to do is Say "Xbox go to YouTube", and I'm there.No interphases, no dashboards, no nothing to get inbetween you and what you want to do.

5.) THE HARDWARE

While the design may be bigger than expected, and it is not quite as powerful as the PS4, there are some very important things lying underneath that no one seems to talk about much.

OVERHEATING

If you have not heard about the xbox 360's red ring of death yet, you must of been hiding under a rock for the past 9 years as it was like a plague during the early years of the 360. Thankfully, due to lower power architecture, lots of; vents, and space between all the components in the Xbox one, and one "mother-chuffing" whopper of a fan, the Xbox One should have absolutely zero percent chance or overheating. (unless of course you decide to seal off all the vents with a glue gun ;p ) It even has power reducing features that will lessen the heat being generated inside if it senses it is overheating, and will notify you if it is getting hot so you can take off the towel that you forgot you had draped over it, or maybe move it in an aria with more space for ventilation.

(Xbox one Engineering sample)

BLUERAY

Back when the ps3 came out, it's one big advantage over the xbox one was the fact that it contained a Blue-ray Drive in it. While the new Xbox 360 redesigns never saw a bluray drive upgrade, Blu Ray is finally coming to Xbox one. Be happy!

RAW POWER

While the Xbox one's GPU is a bit smaller than the ps4's, it runs at a higher frequency which helps bring it closer performance wise. The xbox has the Same 8-core CPU as the PS4 minus some modifications made my microsoft. The Xbox one also has 8 gigabytes of ram, and while it's ram is not as fast as the PS4's GDDR5 ram, it has lower latency, and also includes some ultra speedy eSRAM which can just about bring it on par with the PS4's RAM. Also after much speculation, it is now being said that the Xbox one will make use of AMD's next generation hUMA technology that allows sharing of memory between both the CPU and GPU.

So what does all of this mean? It mean that as far as graphical capabilities, both the PS4 and Xbox one will be very similar. John Carmack, legendary tech wizard who has developed a number of games stated "It’s interesting — it’s almost amazing — how close they are in capabilities, how common they are, and how the capabilities they give are essentially the same… the bottom line being that they’re both multicore processor with AMD graphics." No matter how you want to look at it, Xbox one will be no slouch when it comes to performance, it is approximately 8x as powerful as the Xbox 360!